Andrei Aksyonov was a deputy director of the Institute of Oceanology of the Soviet
Academy of Sciences when he revealed in 1979 that photographs of man-made walls
and staircases had been taken at a depth of 200 feet in the Atlantic, 275 miles
southwest of Portugal, by a colleague, Vladimir Marakuyev. The location was the
underwater summit of the Ampere Seamount, part of the submerged Horseshoe
Archipelago.

The  controversial images had been taken a few years earlier and consisted of two
photos. One shows eight stones, four rounded, four square, in a line just over
a metre in length. The second has three equally spaced stones which appear to
be part of a staircase. Aksyonov, believed that these ‘structures’ had once
stood on dry land, but did not claim them as Atlantean.

However, a couple of years later when better quality images were obtained Akysonov declared that the original features were natural, ruling out an Atlantean explanation.

A somewhat indistinct  copy of the image of the wall is available online^(a), which  was probably copied from Charles Berlitz’s book, Atlantis, the Eight Continent^[166].

This is no more convincing than Sarmast’s mile-deep wall off Cyprus.

^(a) http://keystonecode.org/keystone/?page_id=117